Washing-machine.



Patented May 20, I902.

E. D. HAMILTON.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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E. n. HAMILTON.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD .1). HAMILTON, OF VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,194, dated May 20,1902. Application filed February 6,1902. Serial No. 92.869. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. HAMILTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Vancouver, in the county of Clarke and State of Washington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to Washing-machines, and particularly to that classof washing-machines having a stationary rubber within an oscillatingsuds-box.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction and operationof such machines.

A further object is to provide improved and novel means for hanging therubber Within the suds-box at the'axis of the oscillation.

A further object is to provide improved hangers for the rubber which maybe adjusted vertically within the suds-box to accom modate diiferentthicknesses, of clothes.

With these and other objects in view the invention is hereinafterdescribed and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- I iI Figure 1 is a top plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a centraltrans-' verse vertical section. Fig.4 is a side view of a portion,showing the bearing.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the

machine is supported upon braced standards, (indicated at 6,) at the topof which are secured uncapped pillow-blocks 7, forming the hearings, inwhich the suds-box 8 oscillates upon hollow trunuions 9, projecting fromthe sides of the suds-box. The bearings are not capped, so as to permitthe ready removal of the suds-box from the supporting-frame whendesired. The interior of the suds-box is provided with corrugations, asusual, and within the same, at a each end thereof, are; splashboards 10,fixed to the sides of the suds-box and extending vertically below thetop of the rubber 11. This prevents water splashing out ofthe machinewhen it is being operated. A deck 12 closes the top of the suds-boxbetween the splash-boards and the outer edge. The rubber is hung withinthe suds-box by means of hangers 13 from a bar 14, which extends acrossthe suds-box and through the hollow trunnions thereof. The portion ofthis bar within the suds-box is squared, as indicated at 14:, and theends thereofextending through the trunnions are rounded, as at 14".Rotation of the bar is prevented by means of a pin 15, extending througha hole in the pillowblock and the end of the bar. The hangers for therubber are provided with a succession of longitudinal slots 16, whichare shaped to receive the squared portion of the bar 14, which may beentered therein through openings 17 By this means the rubber may be hungon the bar in any of the slots, according to the thickness of theclothes, and when so hung a vertical movement of the rubber is permittedequal to the length of the slot. It will be seen that the rubber may bereadily placed or removed.

By the construction described the suds-box is free to oscillate on itstrunnions, while the squared portion of. the bar within the slots of thehangers prevents oscillation of the rubber.

The bar is thinner horizontally than vertically at its squared portion,so that to enter the same through the openings 17 the rubber must beturned till its hangers are substantially horizontal. Then the thin sideof the bar will be presented to the openings and pass therethrough, andbeing entered into the slots the rubberis dropped until its hangers arevertical, which presents the broad side of the bar to the openings, andas said side is made wider than the openings the accidentaldisengagement of the hangers from the bar is prevented.

The rubber is provided with a handle 18 to facilitate its manipulation,and each end of the suds-box may be provided ,with a handle 19 tooperate the same. The top of the sudsbox above the rubber is closed by aremovable box-like cover 20.

What I claim is- V 1. In a washing-machine, the combination with a frameand a semicircular oscillating suds-box supported thereby, of a barsupported by the frame and extending across the rgengaging theable,non-oscillatr ends of the hanglar bar across the same, of a. removable,vertically-movable rubber supported inthe sudsbox by hangers, saidhangers having angular slots receiving the bar, whereby oscillation ofthe rubber is prevented but vertical movement permitted.

7 ol'llXe to the lowe within the suds-box.

:4. In a washing-machine, the combination with an oscillating suds-boxmounted on holiow trurmions, of a stationary bar extending through thetrunnions and across the sudshox, non-oscillating hangers detneheblyenin presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD D. HAMILTON.

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